Communication is one of the components of MARL and an active area of research itself, as it might influence the final performance of agents, and it affects coordination or negotiation directly. Effective communication is essential in order to interact successfully, solving the challenges of cooperation, coordination, and negotiation between several agents.
Most research in multiagent systems has tried to address the communication needs of an agent: what information to send, when, and to whom and result in strategies that are optimized for the specific application for which they are adopted. Known communication protocols such as Cheap talk can be seen as “doing by talking” in which talk precedes action. Others include “talking by doing” in which one of the agents have incomplete information and stands for actions speaking louder than words.
We will go through how different approaches for learning communication protocols with Deep Neur